Welcome to LVC
(Formerly known as The Low Vision Information Center)The Low Vision Center offers its resources without charge, relying entirely upon personal contributions to fund its varied services.
I invite you to browse our web site for more information about our services, as well as
helpful hints for improving your vision. Some examples include:
- Quarterly Newsletters -- FREE
- Links to Other Low Vision Sites
- Quick Tips
- How to Order Low Vision Aids
Terry Eason
Executive Director
LowVisionCtr@aol.com
News and Notes
APH Talking PC Maps webinars
The American Printing House for the Blind is presenting a series of eight audio webinars (on-line seminars) about its Talking PC Maps software product, one webinar per month from September 2012 through April 2013. An on-line archive of past webinars is available. For details, see the APH News page at www.aph.org/advisory/2012adv09.html.
"Making learning easier" SATS October 27
The Saturday Adaptive Technology Session (SATS) for October will be an update of last February's popular session on learning disability software.Reading, writing, and organization for middle and high school students
- Kurzweil 3000
- Dragon
- iPad apps for reading books from online sites (e.g. Bookshare) and new Kurzweil 3000 Firefly App
Students and parents are invited to take part in this free program. No reservations are required. Moira Williams, president of Envision Technology, Inc., and Speri Silverman, an instructional specialist working with Montgomery County Public Schools, will lead demonstrations and discuss five technologies to improve learning, especially as used in MCPS.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
1 to 3 p.m.
Rockville Memorial Library
21 Maryland Ave.
Rockville, MD 20850
240-777-0140 or TTY 240-777-0902
October POB newsletter and events
The October issue of Your Eyes Today, the newsletter of the Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington, is now available. It includes announcements of many local events sponsored by POB in October and the coming months. Follow this link to the POB web site to view the newsletter on-line.
Bus to LBPH event October 27
MCPL will provide a bus for Talking Book patrons attending the October 27 twentieth anniversary celebration at LBPH in Baltimore. For details, please e-mail drcinfo@montgomerycountymd.gov or call 240-777-0959.
LVSG Meeting October 23
| Guest speaker: | Judy Rasmussen, Rehabilitation Counselor, Maryland State Division of Rehabilitation Services (DORS). Judy will be speaking about her personal journey and what DORS can do for you. |
| When: | Tuesday, October 23, 2012 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
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| Where: | Jewish Community Center 6125 Montrose Road (corner E. Jefferson Street) Rockville, Maryland
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For more information please call Anita Cohen at 301-299-7077.
Vis-ABILITIES conference near BWI November 2-4
The Vis-ABILITIES 2012 conference, hosted by the American Council of the Blind of Maryland will be November 2-4 at Double Tree BWI airport hotel. For more information, view the conference web site at www.visabilities.org or call Terry at 301-806-4948. The conference fee is $85 for the full conference or $45 for the Saturday daytime activities only. A special room rate at the Double Tree hotel is available for rooms reserved by October 1. Free transportation is available for Montgomery County residents.
Windows 8 accessibility session November 17
The topic of the November 17 Saturday Adaptive Technology Session (SATS) is tentatively scheduled to be Windows 8 accessibility. If you're interested in this topic and have some specific questions, please send them to drcinfo@montgomerycountymd.gov.SATS are held on the fourth Saturday of each month from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in a branch of Montgomery County Public Libraries. They are sponsored by the Disability Resource Center Library Advisory Committee, and are free of charge. We welcome your suggestions for topics and speakers at: drcinfo@montgomerycountymd.gov.
Audio archive of TUG meetings
The Maryland State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (LBPH) in Baltimore sponsors monthly Technology User Group (TUG) meetings, where technology of potential interest to the visually impaired is discussed. If you want to know what's been happening at these meetings, you can now download audio recordings of previous meetings from the TUG archive on the LBPH web site at http://www.lbph.lib.md.us/tug.html.This and other information is in the Spring 2012 issue of LBPH's Library Line newsletter. You can retrieve the current and back issues of Library Line from the LBPH web site at http://www.lbph.lib.md.us/newsltrindex.html.
